Bain is set to launch $2.5bn buy-out fund

By

Guy Paisner

May 15, 2000 5:00 p.m. GMT

Bain Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm, is about to launch a $2.5bn (&euro2.7bn) buy-out fund.

According to The Daily Deal, a US newspaper and web-based financial information service, Bain Capital is expected to send offering documents this week to limited partners for its seventh private equity fund.